However the recall effort against Mayor Ron Littlefield turns out, there will be no real winners.
There was a lot of unfortunate contention when Tennessee lawmakers considered and passed a bill requiring voters to present valid photo ID at the ballot box.
Residents of Bradley County and the surrounding area are no doubt proud that German company Wacker Chemical has just announced a $300 million additional investment at its facility there.
Americans are expected to spend $17.6 billion on flowers, jewelry and candy by Tuesday in what is typically the second-largest spending holiday of the year behind Christmas.
Inside a chain-link fence along Morningside Drive in Soddy-Daisy, 22 plump pygmy goats spend their days munching on grass and hay, wholly unaware they are at the center of a drama that has enveloped a family, a neighborhood and now a city commission.
Bond has been set at $30,000 for a Dalton State College professor facing child molestation, sodomy and rape charges. Monte Gale Salyer, 58, is accused of molesting an 8-year-old girl and two other young girls whose families he befriended at church.
The yellow bursts of daffodils and coral clouds of budding quince bushes may need mulch or burlap coats. The early spring feel of January — one of the warmest ever recorded in Chattanooga — and early February is being shoved aside by an icy blast of winter.
Judge Jeff Hollingsworth's welcome decision Friday to cancel the pending August recall election for a successor to Mayor Ron Littlefield was expected, and correct.
He likes President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, but he would tweak it. He doesn't think Congress should be a "cushy job you never want to leave," but he won't set term limits on himself. He'll close the revenue gap, but he won't raise taxes.
"Hey, you guys didn't get the hint the first time?" Investigator John Patterson, his arm propped on the window of his patrol car, polarized glasses shielding his eyes, is speaking to men huddled along the sidewalk near Sandy's Mini Mart on Glass Street.
LaFayette High School art teacher Liz Hornik remembers how people reacted when she first got students to create public art for display around town. "LaFayette's getting all artsy." Resident comments like that prompted her to think, "Yes! That's exactly what I want."
A judge invoked a decision he made more than a year ago -- later overturned by a higher court -- to stop the recall election of Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield for a second time.
Get 'em while they're hot. The scorching new 2013 Lexus GS 350 has just landed at Lexus of Chattanooga on Brainerd Road. And, indeed, landed is the right word because the new GS looks like it could be the fuselage of a jet aircraft.
Hundreds of thousands of patriotic women have served well and honorably in the U.S. armed forces.
